Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.
Aaron LevieAll of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.
Aaron LevieWe're enamored with the concept that there's always a price. But sometimes, your goal is to build a great company, not sell it.
Aaron LevieUber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work
Aaron LevieIf you don't go to every level of your company, you distance yourself from the marketplace and from your people.
Aaron LevieI believe there's plenty of market for each; we're talking about an ecosystem that is going to support billions of devices, so a competitive landscape is good for consumers, developers, and the platforms alike. Apple brings a smooth elegance to its devices and platform, with the best marketplace experience to boot. Google brings a higher volume of devices as well as a more diverse ecosystem to interact with. The real story here is that Microsoft is nowhere to be seen, ending a two-decade monopoly and creating biggest opportunity for software startups probably ever.
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